Multi-RAD Studio IDE Expert Manager

Overview

This application is for editor the installed experts in all versions of RAD Studio (and older Delphi and C++ Builder) on a machine.

A view of the Expert Manager displaying duplicate experts and experts with duplicate paths

It isn’t the intention of this application to compete with GExpert in this regard, it is just I needed something a little more fixable for the following reasons:

I needed a tool to edit multiple instances of RAD Studio (including debugging registry points) at the same time – this is due to running multiple IDE versions and debugging installations when writing and testing Open Tools API plug-ins;

I needed it to tell me about duplicate installations as I’ve had a few instances of this happening and I haven’t yet tracked down why;

I needed it to tell me about invalid paths.

Usage

Treeview

Hopefully the interface is somewhat self explanatory however on the left hand side is a treeview of all the installations on your machine (in your current user profile). These include Borland, CodeGear and Embarcadero products. Under the company names are the installation points. For all company default installations this is BDS. If you have other nodes then they could be other produces but for me (see image above) they are the debugging installations create when I use the -r command line to RAD Studio. Below these point you will find the version numbers of the RAD Studio installations.